IMB Piracy Reporting Centre: Intelligence Source Guide
The IMB Piracy Reporting Centre is the shipping industry's single 24-hour point of contact for piracy and armed robbery reports,...
GPS Coordinates
Oryx OSINT Equipment Losses: Intelligence Source Guide
Oryx publishes cumulative lists of military equipment losses in which every single entry is backed by a photograph or video,...
CTBTO Monitoring: Intelligence Source Guide
The CTBTO operates a global, purpose-built network for detecting nuclear explosions using seismic, hydroacoustic, infrasound and radionuclide sensors. Its bulletins...
Global Forest Watch: Intelligence Source Guide
Global Forest Watch publishes satellite-derived tree cover loss and near-real-time deforestation alerts alongside concession, protected area and tenure layers. It...
MarineTraffic / Global Fishing Watch: Intelligence Source Guide
Two very different ways to see a vessel: MarineTraffic, a commercial AIS aggregator selling position and voyage data, and Global...
UCDP Georeferenced Events: Intelligence Source Guide
UCDP GED records individual incidents of organised violence worldwide from 1989 onward, each geocoded to a point, dated to a...
Sunrise-Sunset API: Intelligence Source Guide
A free, keyless API returning sunrise, sunset, solar noon and the three twilight boundaries for any coordinate and date. Small,...
N2YO satellite tracking: Intelligence Source Guide
N2YO turns the public satellite catalogue into answers: where an object is right now, when it next passes over a...
CelesTrak / Space-Track: Intelligence Source Guide
CelesTrak and Space-Track are the two public front doors to the US-maintained satellite catalogue: mean orbital elements for tens of...
NOAA Aviation Weather Center API: Intelligence Source Guide
The Aviation Weather Center serves observations, forecasts, pilot reports, hazard advisories and upper-air winds through a keyless government API. It...
Satellite Imagery: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Overhead imagery does not tell you what happened. It tells you what changed between two dates, and the analyst supplies...
Facility / Site: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A facility is where corporate paper meets physical reality. Registries tell you who claims the site; the ground truth tells...
GPS Coordinates: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Six decimal places is a doorstep. Two is a district. Precision in a coordinate is a decision about harm, not...
Location / Coordinates: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A place name is not a point. It is a claim about where something happened, carrying a resolution, a source...
Maritime Intelligence (MARINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Ships are legally required to announce themselves. The interesting behaviour is what happens in the minutes after a vessel stops...
Aviation Intelligence (AVINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
An aircraft broadcasts its identity and position to anyone with a twenty-dollar receiver. The intelligence is not in the position;...
Space Intelligence (SPACEINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Orbits are deterministic and observable. A satellite cannot hide its manoeuvres from anyone willing to do the arithmetic, and much...
Signals Intelligence (SIGINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Signals intelligence is a state function with a warrant behind it. For everyone else, the discipline still matters, because you...
Radio Frequency Intelligence (RFINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
The spectrum is a public utility with a public map. Licences, allocations and open receiver networks let you characterise the...
Measurement & Signature Intel (MASINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Imagery shows you the object. Measurement and signature intelligence tells you what the object is doing, how hot it is...
Technical Intelligence (TECHINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Every device carries a confession: certification filings, component markings, firmware strings and design choices. Technical intelligence reads that confession to...
Imagery Intelligence (IMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
An image is a measurement, not a picture. Imagery intelligence extracts what can be measured, then defends out loud the...
Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Place is the one attribute nearly every other data point carries. Geospatial intelligence makes place answer questions: what is here,...
Risk Intelligence (RISKINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Risk intelligence is what stops a briefing ending with it depends. It converts what you know, and what you do...
Sanctions Intelligence (SANCINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A sanctions hit is not a finding. It is the start of one, and the work is proving whether the...
